A two-time winner of an interpretation prize at the International Stockhausen Concerts and Courses (Kürten, Germany), Christie Finn, soprano, performed the role of Soprano II in the 2012 New York revival (and 2011 New York premiere) of Georges Aperghis’ Sextuor: L’origine des Espèces. In the past year, Finn has sung with VocaalLAB (Amsterdam, Netherlands), Haarlem Opera Theater (Netherlands), the Hezarfen Ensemble (Istanbul, Turkey), and several ensembles in New York City. Most recently, she performed with ekmeles in a concert of premieres by Columbia University composers at Roulette (Brooklyn). In Fall 2011, Finn joined the Amsterdam-based ensemble VocaalLAB as part of their production MonteverdISH. Upcoming performances in 2012 include the U.S. premiere of Luigi Nono’s Quando Stanno Morendo and the role of Julie in Jason Cady’s Happiness is the Problem with Experiments in Opera. Finn will return to the Netherlands in the summer to perform Unsuk Chin’s Cantatrix Sopranica as part of the NJO Muziekzomer. Recent performances abroad include a solo recital in the Netherlands entitled “We, the Hearts,” concerts with VocaalLAB in the Gaudeamus Festival (Utrecht, The Netherlands) and at Orgelpark (Amsterdam) and the concert From the Grammar of Dreams with the Istanbul-based Hezarfen Ensemble in the 39th Istanbul Music Festival, singing works of Kaija Saariaho and Michael Ellison at Santral Istanbul’s Museum of Energy. Last season, Finn performed in the world premiere of Christopher Cerrone’s opera Invisible Cities at Columbia University’s Italian Academy. Of her performance of Betsy Jolas’ Quartet No. 2 with the Tactus Ensemble, the New York Times praised her “lovely account of this complicated score” and how she “surrendered to the music’s florid impulses.”
Finn is a founder and member of the experimental music duo NOISE-BRIDGE, collaborating with clarinetist Felix Behringer, as well as the trio Synchronous (cello, piano, and soprano trio). Finn is also an active member of the New York City-based vocal ensemble ekmeles, having performed with ekmeles since their founding concert in September 2010. 
Finn made her recording debut with the release of the album The Year Begins To Be Ripe (Sonic Arts Editions) in works of John Cage and Stuart Saunders Smith. She has performed Lieder recitals in Austria, operatic works in Italy, and contemporary works by southwestern American composers with the Voices of Change Ensemble of Dallas, Texas. Opera roles include Chabris (Scarlatti’s Giuditta), Mrs. Jenks (The Tender Land) and Belinda (Dido and Aeneas).
Finn is a graduate of the Manhattan School of Music’s Contemporary Performance Program, where she studied with Lucy Shelton. Finn also holds a Master of Music in Voice from Southern Methodist University, where she studied with Joan Heller, and a Bachelor of Arts in Music with a minor in Modern Languages & Linguistics from UMBC (University of Maryland Baltimore County).
In addition to her career as a professional singer, Finn is also an active poet. Composer Matt Aelmore set her poetry in the five-movement Pierrot Opera in 2011. Current projects include include a libretto for a new opera by Brooklyn-based composer Jason Cady and a collaboration with Chicago-based composer Christopher Fisher-Lochhead. For more information about Finn’s projects in music and poetry, please visit Passion-Flowers.
Since 2009, Finn has worked for The Hampsong Foundation, serving as the Content Manager for both the Song of America database and The Hampsong Foundation website. She has consulted on several projects with the Foundation, including the Song of America radio series, syndicated through WFMT Chicago. For the series, Finn wrote two episodes (“There is No Gender in Music” and “Emily Dickinson: Letter to the World“) and served as a Research Consultant for the entire series.
Christie Finn is a native of Kennett Square, Pennsylvania.